If you’ve read my wreath blog, you know that crafting runs in my family, to an extent. The credit for this one goes entirely to my niece. Sadly, I didn’t even get to attend this party, but it was too cute not to post. The party was to honor her husband, who had just graduated from college with his teaching license for K- 4. So, her theme for the party was primary school.

Food – she created a ‘pack your lunch’ buffet with brown bags and pack-able foods, like:

• Nut/snack bars
• Fruit snacks
• Small bags of chips
• Clementines
• Small packs of cookies

*Note, these were more of ‘goodie bags’; she had a regular menu of food for people to eat that wasn’t pre-packaged. You can see a pic of the full buffet below (see banner pictures). She also created a veggie tray with crayon-shaped labels to teach the different colors:

• Green – celery
• Orange – carrots
• Red – peppers
• Yellow – peppers

For dessert, she had school themed items:

• Apples – chocolate covered oreos using red chocolate with a bit of green frosting at the top
• Pencils – she cut vanilla wafers (not the cookies, the bars) into a pencil shape and then used white chocolate for the tip and pink chocolate for the eraser. She tipped it with a chocolate chip for the lead!
• Graduation scrolls – she used Pirouettes and tied ribbon around them

Decorations:

• She made a triangle banner using various patterns of red paper to say ‘Congrats’
• She made a banner of primary colored poofy balls by threading string through them
• Finally, she made a primary colored banner with the numbers 0-9

For other decorations:

• She made a decorative cup surrounded by pencils and crayons
• She also had two posters made for his classroom (on Etsy, I assume), that did double duty as decorations AND a gift 🙂

 

Maybe you have someone in your life going into the same profession, or maybe you want to plan a back to school party for your kids. Either way, I hope this post gives you a few fun ideas to get creative!